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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.32 — 1,332,643 ratings — published 2011
The Grand Design (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.06 — 78,726 ratings — published 2010
A Brief History of Time (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 494,376 ratings — published 1988
Black Skin, White Masks (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.25 — 20,681 ratings — published 1952
The Wretched of the Earth (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.35 — 35,092 ratings — published 1961
The Republic (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 233,565 ratings — published -400
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 618,466 ratings — published 2011
Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.30 — 41,131 ratings — published 1968
Cruel Optimism (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.15 — 1,499 ratings — published 2011
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 23,085 ratings — published 1748
The Society of the Spectacle (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 24,531 ratings — published 1967
Meditations on First Philosophy (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.73 — 30,770 ratings — published 1641
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.17 — 41,757 ratings — published 1985
Orientalism (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 31,517 ratings — published 1978
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.23 — 25,696 ratings — published 1988
Distinction (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 3,788 ratings — published 1979
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.23 — 38,537 ratings — published 1975
Postcapitalist Desire: The Final Lectures (Unknown Binding)
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avg rating 4.28 — 2,638 ratings — published 2020
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 44,528 ratings — published 2009
The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times, and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 9,196 ratings — published 1953
The Second Sex (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.19 — 49,373 ratings — published 1949
The Fantastic: A Structural Approach to a Literary Genre (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.91 — 1,513 ratings — published 1970
Mastery (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.26 — 51,470 ratings — published 2012
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.39 — 342,261 ratings — published 2012
Rock My Religion: Writings and Art Projects, 1965-1990 (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.39 — 18 ratings — published 1993
The Trial and Death of Socrates (Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo)
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avg rating 4.13 — 47,717 ratings — published -400
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.12 — 84,080 ratings — published 2019
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.33 — 183,017 ratings — published 2019
The Art of War (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 599,213 ratings — published -500
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.04 — 473,811 ratings — published 1997
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
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avg rating 4.18 — 296,404 ratings — published 2015
Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.14 — 24,012 ratings — published 2014
The State and Revolution (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.27 — 20,485 ratings — published 1917
What Is to Be Done? (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.13 — 6,053 ratings — published 1902
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 578,041 ratings — published 2012
The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.39 — 3,501 ratings — published 2008
The Social Contract (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.78 — 60,408 ratings — published 1762
Philosophical Investigations (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.26 — 16,190 ratings — published 1953
The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.70 — 210,393 ratings — published 1848
The Nicomachean Ethics (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.01 — 63,514 ratings — published -350
Dark Matter (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 815,735 ratings — published 2016
How Fiction Works (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.99 — 8,491 ratings — published 2008
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.37 — 941,891 ratings — published 1946
Mythologies (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.08 — 17,711 ratings — published 1957
A Lover's Discourse: Fragments (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.35 — 14,822 ratings — published 1977
Economics: The User's Guide (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.15 — 8,845 ratings — published 2014
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 104,266 ratings — published 1999
Great Books of the Western World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.51 — 264 ratings — published 1952
Critique of Pure Reason (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.96 — 44,467 ratings — published 1781
Manifiesto Contra-Sexual
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avg rating 4.15 — 1,684 ratings — published 2000
“For the real issue under all the fights about other women is the man is unable to commit himself.”
― The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution
― The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution
“The empty world is not nothing; it is a formal object with logical properties.”
― Ontological Nihilism and the Logic of the Empty World
― Ontological Nihilism and the Logic of the Empty World